So, in my effort to give back to the community, I thought about giving something to the beginners as well. I also find a lot of the beginner recipes in the side bar out of date. We'll consider this a safe place to ask beginner questions as well if you see something pop up that you don't understand.
I want to start taking simple recipe ideas and making them the best I can with simple ingredients. I'm going to focus more on each individual flavor, rather than how they add to the whole of the recipe. I'll focus on popular flavors from the 4 major flavor companies: The Flavor Apprentice, Capella, Flavour Art, Inawera
Today's modest attempt at a simple recipe will be Peaches and Cream. We haves peaches. We have cream. Not too difficult and most people will have these flavors. I strongly suggest you try all 5 of these flavors at the given percentages by them self in a small 5-10ml bottle! This will help your overall understanding of these flavors. Words can only describe so much. And if it doesn't taste good to you, don't use it! This recipe has plenty of subs if you need to use one.
Peaches and Cream|% ---|--- Juicy Peach TFA|1.5 White Peach FA|3 Bavarian Cream TFA|1.5 Vanilla Custard V.1 CAP|1 Meringue FA|0.5
Juicy Peach TFA - This is a candied peach type flavor, like eating the syrup from canned peach. It's very sharp tasting and sweet. This is a top note flavor. Some people will have trouble with this flavor. It contains Linalool with is a known aggravate to some peoples' lungs.
White Peach FA - A very authentic peach. Just like biting into a nice over-ripened peach in the middle of summer. Ever so slightly tart. A bit of a dry flavor. This is why we are also using Juicy Peach to accent the top notes of the peach. This flavor is also troublesome to people who have trouble with Juicy Peach TFA, but does not seem to have it in as high of concentrations.
Bavarian Cream TFA - Think Boston Cream Pie. That's the flavor. It has medium mouth feel. A small to average amount vanilla. Little to no egg. When picking creams, there are often only subtle nuances between the different ones. You will choose based on how 'heavy' the cream is, how much vanilla you want, and how prominent the raw egg flavor is.
Vanilla Custard CAP - It's vanilla custard. Heavy mouth feel. Small to medium vanilla. Strong egg flavor. This a very essential cream flavor. It will be used in a lot bakery and cream desserts. It's good. Very good.
Meringue FA - This is a specialty flavor. Very light mouth feel. Very light vanilla. Medium egg. It tastes like POWDERED SUGAR! You can use this as a sweetener for your bakery and cream deserts. I personally prefer 0.25-0.50% for this.
Peaches and Cream - All the Flavors
That's it. Let me know if you like this idea and want me to post more of these. If you do like it, let me know what else you want to see.
Thanks for sharing ! I personally hate peach flavors but this sounds good. For everybody else, I'm gonna assume that's Capella's Vanilla Custard V1.
When I tried White Peach as a standalone at 4%, I tasted Band-Aids. But I'm going to mix this up, because I don't want to give up on White Peach just yet. Thanks for sharing.
Everybody's taste buds are different. Try it at a lower percentage. I copied this over from my ELR account and it was a typo. Should have been 3.
Hey i've been looking for a good Peaches N Cream recipe and found this one.
I only got Juicy Peach though. Should i try and make it? If yes, what percentage on Juicy Peach ?
Ill order FA White Peach on next flavor order
Have you used Juicy Peach yet to tell if it's troublesome for you?
I've used it in this recipe:
- Juicy Peach (CAP) 7%
- Marshmallow (TPA) 2%
- Sweet Cream (TPA) 4%
- Vanilla Swirl (TPA) 4%
Problem is that even though its close to one of the juices i used to order from a EU vendor. As it steeps its getting too dry.
Great idea.
Tfa juicy peach and I don't get along. I fact it's burning plastic to me so I don't even know what others taste. What's your opinion on subbing inw peach @ 1%?
Good stuff, I kinda want to try this recipe but I found TFA Juicy Peach to be wayy too harsh. Does the cream cover up most of the harshness, or just covers up a little bit?
Short answer, yes. I have problems with juicy peach as well. Meringue does a great job at muting harshness.
Just ordered another ejuice batch and got white peach :), will give this a try when I get them, thanks!
Btw Im still new to diy, but I recall making a popular strawberry custard mix a while ago and they recommended crazy high concentrate percentages, vanilla custard was at 10% alone, total flavour percentage was at 20+% which seemed really high. Tasted super heavy, but turned out somewhat okay, your recipe calls for 1%, ~10% in total and im guessing would still come out great..am I missing something or do people just use various amounts in different recipes? Would have thought too much of flav concentrates would be overkill on the flavours
Yes, anything over 10% can totally be overkill. Keep in mind that companies like The Flavor Apprentice and CAP are no where near as concentrated as FA and INW.
Aside from that. A little goes a long way. The amount you use its based on two things.
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The relative percentages of the other flavors. I.e. if I use juicy peach at 10%, I'm going to have to increase the percentages of the other flavors in hope of tasting the other flavors
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Does the flavor give an off-flavor at higher concentrations? I.e. A lot of custards can give off greasy, cheesy off flavors if used to high or juicy peach can get extremely harsh
However, some flavors are just weaker than others. Using Strawberry Sweet TFA at 5-7% is totally normal.
>I'll focus on popular flavors from the 4 major flavor companies: The Flavor Apprentice, Capella, The Flavour Artist, Inawera
Third one should be "Flavour Art". I'm positive this was a typo, but please edit to keep down confusion for the new people. It's bad enough TFA has started labeling bottles with "FA"
Fantastic post by the way. Your contributions have really been top notch. Thanks for doing them.
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